{"id":1261,"date":"2010-03-25T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T07:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2010-04-30T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T07:24:44","slug":"chinglish-branding-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Chinglish, branding and flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An eclectic mixture today,<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nbut just wanted to share these pictures. Spring has finally sprung and the flowers are out in full bloom. Magnolias, camelias and the &#8216;judas tree&#8217; are covering the campus in various shades of pink and purple, which makes a nice change from the grey that dominated over the last two months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02313-tm.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" alt=\"DSC02313\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02317-tm.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" alt=\"DSC02317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the branding and chinglish side: contenders for the prize this month are: Adides and Kabba &#8230; those world famous sport brands &#8230; hmmmm &#8230; am sure I&#8217;ve hear of them, or at least something similar like that, before &#8230; hmmmm &#8230; sure sounds familiar! And &#8216;other wasto&#8217; &#8211; well talk about being down with the kids and well hip man, yo! Or perhaps a new way of trying to incentivise the young generation to be more environmentally friendly &#8230; hope it works!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02188-tm.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"133\" alt=\"DSC02188\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02269-tm.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC02269\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC02187-tm.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"133\" alt=\"DSC02187\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n  \n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n  \n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eclectic mixture today,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-pictures","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}